FEAR prompts you to fight or flee. It's how our brain is designed. Fear can destroy your chance of going after the things you really want. I know because, for a long time, fear controlled my professional life. I was afraid to be social. I was afraid to start writing. I was afraid of being rejected. So, I missed a lot of great opportunities. I tried to repress and deny my fear, but it was still there like a pack of relentless dogs chasing me. No amount of rationalization would calm me down. But here's what I eventually learned: The fear will never go away, but it can lose its grasp on you if you just admit that you are afraid, and ask for help. When a child is afraid at night, what does he do? He screams and runs toward his parents' bedroom. He jumps in his mother's arms and falls asleep, almost instantly. He's not trying to pretend that he's not afraid laying in his bed, anxiously, for hours. We wrongly assume that the opposite of c
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